FUTURE release canceled
We are sorry to inform you that we have decided to cancel the project “Learning World for the Future” textbook due to several reasons. We apologize to the teachers who have been looking forward to this new textbook. We hope to bring this project back another day.
Thank you for your understanding.
For: Children aged 3 to 5.
WELCOME to Learning World PINK tells about the daily life of a 3-4-year-old child. It uses chants, dialogs, and songs with fun actions to introduce communication between mother and child. The daily scenes include getting up in the morning, having breakfast, going to a playground, going out with mother, putting the toys away, going to a supermarket with mother, taking a bath, putting on pajamas, and going to bed. Each unit has Arts & Crafts material (in the Student Book), using TPR to reinforce the language.
2nd Edition was published on March 1, 2021. Find out more about the changes here.
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Kindergarten students who have completed PINKBOOK / 4-6 years old who are learning English for the first time
Main characters: Jenny (age 6) & Tomoya (age 5)
Songs & chants with fun actions to input about 200 basic vocabulary words without difficulty.
Simple dialogues related to everyday life in the toddler class, greetings, numbers, colors, family, animals, food, fruit, clothes, body parts, verbs for actions and their usage, upper and lower case alphabet, weather, play equipment, etc.
★Appendix: my book An 8-page mini-book to recite the songs and chants learned.
Launch of Student Book (2nd Edition) with audio QR in spring 2022. Click here for more details.
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YELLOW Teacher’s Pack
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You can purchase PACK for YELLOW instruction. It contains the items marked with ★below. February 2023 – Cards in contents switched to 2nd. ISBN：978-4-89991-593-5 13,500 yen＋tax ＊Separate sales available (marked with ★ below). |
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February 2022 – 2nd Edition Guidance Guide attached to the instruction manual. ISBN：978-4-89991-046-6 4,400 yen＋tax |
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For: Preschool children who have finished WELCOME to Learning World PINK and/or YELLOW
BLUE is the same level as YELLOW! It covers similar topics but with slightly different language and vocabulary. A great text to slowly expand children’s language ability and build their confidence. Like YELLOW, BLUE uses fun songs, chants, and dialogues with wonderful pictures spread to stimulate children’s interest. It covers the following topics: Let’s play together, Greetings, Numbers, Colors, Alphabet, Animals, Family, Food, Body parts, Transportation, On/in/under, Seasons, & TPR.
Main characters: Sarah & Andy
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For: Lower elementary school students who have finished WELCOME YELLOW and/or BLUE.
Main characters: Jamie (aged 7), Jamie’s family, Sara (friend).
For primary 1 and 2 students who have learned English from toddlers; after inputting English in the three WELCOME books, students listen, use, think and solve tasks in authentic English.
The course covers auxiliary verbs, present tense affirmations of general verbs, question sentences, have, live, like, and about 300 essential vocabulary words in children’s English. The first letter of the vocabulary alphabet is taught as part of phonics.
The workbooks include tasks to COPY simple words and sentences on the four lines.
Student Book with audio QR published in March 2022. Click here for more details.
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For: Children who have finished Learning World Book 1 or 2, and for beginners of ages 8-9. It can also be used alongside Books 1-3 to add extra content.
READY for Learning World is different from Books 1-3. READY is based on situational themes, instead of grammatical structures. The situations in READY revolve around school & home situations of elementary school children.
Main characters: four children from Canada, China, Mexico, and Thailand. READY also helps students think globally and relate to children from other cultures.
2nd Edition was published on March 1, 2021. Find out more about the changes here: READY for Learning World (2nd Edition)
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For: Students who have finished Learning World Book 1 and/or READY.
5 main characters: Mark (9 years old, from Canada), Yumi (from Japan), Min (from China), Nelson (from Brazil), and Emma (from France).
Book 1, text for grades 3 and 4 to be used after READY. It covers general verb affirmative and interrogative sentences, the 5W1H question mark, and many verb phrases; the number of lines per page is three or four more than in Book 1, and the emphasis is also on reading and writing. The book covers approximately 400 words of vocabulary.
Level 5 of the EIKEN English Proficiency Test
February 2021 Textbook partially corrected. Click here for the detail.
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For: Students who have completed Learning World Book 2, and for students who have had 4-5 years of English education.
Learning World 3 follows the same unit structure as Books 1 & 2, but the content is written to reflect the needs of upper elementary students and help them as they are becoming more aware of the world around them. At this level, students are expected to be able to begin writing short paragraphs. Introduces past and future tenses.
Main characters: Tina (11) & her friend Shota
>> How it has changed in BOOK 3?
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>>Activity Sheets 111 Unit 7-1 Sample
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For: Elementary school students who have finished Learning World 3
‘I’ve been having fun in my conversation-focused lessons, but won’t my middle school English ruin it?’ “Will I be able to speak English smoothly?” This textbook for upper primary school students answers these questions. This book focuses on using the language, but also organizes the grammar up to Book 3 so that students can say English more accurately and get used to speaking and expressing themselves.
The book covers key grammar for 1st and 2nd-year students, including Be verbs, noun plurals, Wh-questions, the third person singular s, progressive forms, adjectives, prepositions, adverbs, future tense, past tense, comparative and superlative classes, verbal nouns, infinitives and more. It is the only one in the series that is STEP-based and focuses on review.
Eiken Level 4
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For:5 years or more of English experience/ Completion of Book 4/ Junior high school students
Main characters: Daichi Asahi (12 years old), Kelly (friend)
In addition to the grammar of the second and third years of junior high school (adverbs of frequency, comparative superlative, present perfect tense, etc.), the course also covers the present perfect progressive, subjunctive past, and participles, which have been studied in high school. The course covers a variety of topics such as environmental issues, pollution, the pros and cons of uniforms, etc. There is a lot of Creative Writing, in which students speak, write, and present their ideas, etc. using the English they have already learned. This text comprehensively improves students’ English language skills.
The workbook includes questions corresponding to Eiken Level 3.
*Please note that until 2018, both 1st and 2nd editions were sold as a ‘transition period’; from 2019, only 2nd edition will be sold.
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WELCOME YELLOW, BLUE provides a spiral acquisition of basic vocabulary, basic expressions, and formulaic expressions that should be input in the early stages of children’s English.
YELLOW is full of self-expressive activities and develops the foundations of presentation. Each text comes with a My Book (8-page mini-book, 10 pages in total) as an appendix to each Unit.
BLUE is a little more intellectually challenging in terms of concepts than YELLOW and is best suited for 4-5-year-olds. It has more challenging songs and chants. The text comes with a Read n’ Roll supplement for each Unit (10 pages in total).
BRIDGE for upper grades reviews grammar up to Book 3 (covering infinitives and comparisons from Jr 2 and Jr 3), improves vocabulary, and builds a foundation for junior high school English. It also reinforces speaking skills learned up to this point. The book is designed to organize vaguely-remembered sentence structures and build a bridge to correct English, so BRIDGE should always be used in conjunction with the workbooks to help students move from children’s English to the next step.
TOMORROW is designed for sixth- to junior-high school students and includes realistic thinking and English language topics such as the Earth, the Mayor’s speech, recycling, why you failed your test, how to talk when you want to go to Hawaii, how to say when you don’t want interference, how to advise people, agree/disagree, why you were chosen as the first student to go to the moon, and overseas travel itineraries. We have a range of topics to present with full use of English. The second half of the 10-unit course covers new grammar such as the subjunctive past, present perfect progressive, and participles, which is high school grammar as of 2019.
1 Songs and chants are fun and easy to learn: to ensure efficient input of English, the songs and chants are easy to remember with lots of repetition.
(Listening at home is essential for toddlers. We ask for your cooperation in listening to audio together at home).
2 Self-expression from the toddler stage: The emphasis is on the children being able to express themselves through pictures and one-word sentences from the time they are toddlers and being able to ‘use’ English.
(They may show you their drawings at home, so please affirm and listen to what your child has drawn.)
3 There is more than one answer: even I don’t know is an answer. We achieve results even in one lesson a week by ensuring that silence is not tolerated.
4 The five areas of the four skills advocated by the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science, and Technology: listening, speaking, reading, making presentations, and writing are spirally interspersed throughout the nine volumes, enabling students to acquire comprehensive English operational skills without strain.
5 English is a practical subject. It is okay to make mistakes. We try to open children’s hearts and minds to enjoy lessons with their peers.
(There may be some grammatical errors in the beginning, but as the lessons go on, the English will gradually become more correct.)
6 We nurture a sense of self-esteem and acceptance of others in the spirit of ‘I’m right. You’re right.
■Teaching Concept: The Communicative Approach/ the Humanistic Approach
■Lesson Procedure: The main focus of the lessons is communication activities. Click here for more detail.
In the last month of the year, the lessons review the Achievement Targets in the textbooks.
Achievement Targets = goals to achieve.
Achievement Targets = Goals for each volume = Can-Do list.
There are Achievement Targets at the beginning of every text volume. When you start a text, you should know the Achievement Targets. These are the achievement targets for the students, but also for the instructor, who has to ‘get them all to achieve’.
In the month in which you finish the text, you should aim to complete all 16-20 tasks over a period of 3-4 weeks.
Once the tasks have been completed, the teacher should sign the certificate at the end of the text and hand it to the students.
↓ The final volume TOMORROW (from grade 6) will get you this far
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*In addition to the vocabulary on the cards, the book also contains Function words, which are essential for constructing English sentences.
The total number of words from WELCOME YELLOW to Learning World Book 3 is 1,323.
TOMORROW (2nd Edition) does not include vocabulary cards, but the TOMORROW text alone provides access to 1,110 words, including Function words.
The total number of compliant cards in each volume, represented by pictures, including nouns, verbs, adjectives and adverbs, is as follows
WELCOME PINK: 100 words (vocabulary for everyday life, from waking up in the morning to going to bed)
WELCOME YELLOW: 160 words (numbers, colors, animals, food, clothes, body parts, alphabet, fruit, weather, etc.)
WELCOME BLUE: 174 words (shapes, happy, sad and other adjectives, vegetables, Halloween, Christmas vocabulary, verbs, etc.)
Book 1: 290 words (vocabulary for early primary school)
Book 2: 396 words (vocabulary to be studied in the middle primary grades)
READY: 231 words (vocabulary from school life situations)
Book3: 307 words (Vocabulary for upper primary school students to learn)
Collection of Color Kyogu and Activity Sheets for Information Gap activities
Apart from the cards, there is Color Kyogu(a collection of activity sheets), which is a teacher’s tool for Information Gap activities. These tools are used for activities that cannot be solved without the use of English and that require the use of English.
The Color Kyogu (activity sheets) are mainly used on the blackboard. Most are A4 size, and the various parts are the size of the palm of your hand. Larger items can also be folded down to A4 size.
The PINK, YELLOW, BLUE, and READY compliant versions are named ‘Color Kyogu’, while the Learning World 1, 2, and 3 compliant versions are named ‘Activity Sheets’.
Color Kyogu enables Information Gap activities a key feature of the Learning World series.
Color Kyogu (activity sheet collections) are included in the Teacher’s Pack of each volume.
The PINK, YELLOW, BLUE and READY Color Kyogu are also available as Colour Kyogu Nos. 1-43, sold in separate packs by activity.
Audio: homework is to listen to the audio of the text on a CD or student app.
There is a student app available for tablets and smartphones (the audio is exactly the same as the student CD); please choose either the CD or the app.
*The app must be purchased by the parent/guardian for the device you have. Please choose iOS or Android according to the device model.
●Click here for information for parents (for distribution).
There is a clear difference between ‘doing’ and ‘not doing’ listening homework. Reviewing English outside the classroom is essential if students are to learn to speak English in 1-2 lessons per week. The focus should be on speaking English during lessons, while Listening and Writing require help from the family. Parents are encouraged to ask their children to listen to audio recordings every week from the time they are toddlers.
*2022, YELLOW, Book 1 text comes with a student audio QR code and no student CD.
→Click here for the audio sample
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★Click here to find out what to do if the sound does not work after installing the Student CD application.
The Teacher CD (Class CD) contains audio for classroom use only, such as listening tests. The Student CDs are selected from the Teacher CDs and contain the audio that the students are expected to listen to for homework. (Only PINK is common to both students and teachers).
About the Author.
Formerly ran AIM English Studio (Sakai, Osaka).
For more than 20 years, she has taught English to more than 1,500 children at her own English conversation school, private elementary schools and national junior high schools.
She develops teaching materials “from the children’s point of view and in line with the situation of English education in Japan”, and teaches at courses for training future teachers of English for children, as well as managing classrooms and giving numerous lectures for mothers. As a leading expert in English language education, she has many fans throughout Japan, and her teaching materials and picture books, which are based on her thorough knowledge of Japanese children, are used in a variety of English language education settings.
Special adviser to Learning World accredited schools.
⇒⇒Click here for the articles by Mikiko Nakamoto*(Japanese)
Many schools in Learning World take EIKEN Level 5 at the end of Books 2-3 and EIKEN Level 4 at the end of Books 3-4; Book 5 (TOMORROW) is at EIKEN Level 3. Passing the EIKEN does not = being able to speak English. However, passing the test is significant in the sense that it gives students confidence in English and improves their internal assessment. Children do not “hate tests” but “hate getting bad marks”, so it is important for parents to keep the important goal far away and always support and cooperate with their children so that they can try to study steadily and positively, rather than “rushing for results and worrying about the grade of the English test”. Even one lesson a week can produce results with the help of home learning.
The beauty of the Learning World is that it gives you a real sense of achievement that makes learning fun! This is what it’s all about. Children who grow up in Learning World are able to understand English audio questions at the level of EIKEN Level 2 with ease. The children themselves honestly did not think they could hear and understand that much, but by consistently using the Learning World textbooks from WELCOME, they have passed the EIKEN and gained confidence that they can speak English. What has helped her so much is that she has listened to the audio CDs repeatedly since she was a toddler, and has continued to do so consistently as her level has increased, and according to the skills she has acquired, she has increased the areas of recitation, increased the areas of reading aloud, and tried to replace them with her own opinions and thoughts! That’s all there is to it, but I realise that the power of the accumulation of these skills is huge. If we tried to do this with a different text or reference book, how much would the teacher have to prepare? I feel faint just thinking about it. How amazing is Nakamoto-sensei for preparing it and saying “Here you go”, I am filled with gratitude to APRICOT for providing this much know-how at such a low price.(From an email received in February 2020 from Okayama Prefecture: 18 years of using Learning World)
| I decided to open my own English conversation class independently from a franchise, and in my search for teaching materials, I came across Apricot. The price of the materials is reasonable, and the company answered my inquiries in detail, so I started using it. The students in the upper primary and junior high school grades used to feel as if they were being forced to do something they didn’t want to do, just by opening the textbook, but their attitude towards learning has changed drastically as they are more receptive to the chants. There is an atmosphere of freedom to say their own things, and I can feel that the class is beginning to function as a language class. I feel that I am still inexperienced in teaching and have not mastered the use of the system, but I am grateful that there is a wide range of items for teachers that are readily available. (From a school in Aichi Prefecture, Japan: the second year of teaching Learning World) |
| When Learning World was first published, it was a shock. At a time when no one thought it was possible to create an original Japanese text, I looked at Learning World Book 1 and 2… and the right-hand page was a dozen frames for students to draw something by themselves (laughs). I was surprised that there were English teachers in Japan who could do this. After that, Apricot didn’t release a continuation volume, but WELCOME for toddlers and READY for older beginners, because they know Japanese children so well, and the line-up was, I see. Apricot was the first to name a coursebook with a book title that didn’t start with 1, and it was a hot topic at bookstores. I feel that the reason why the workbooks have Eiken-compatible CDs and information-gap activities with colored teaching tools is that they have clear objectives, originality, and a solid Nakamoto-sensei way of thinking. (Formerly in charge of sales for an overseas publisher) |
| English language education in Japan has been importing material produced by foreign publishers, with foreign teachers giving fun lessons and students attracted by a sense of stylishness, with a yearning for foreign culture. But the government has taken a serious look at English as a communication tool. It is a natural progression that the country’s policy is somewhat similar to the Learning World’s worldview. I have worked with a variety of texts, but I think children who grew up in the Learning World are lucky. I wish I could have had classes like this instead of just cards and Repeat after me. (Formerly in charge of teaching materials agency) |
| The WELCOME materials for younger children are in a picture book style, which makes the songs easy to learn and easy to teach. In all texts, the children start singing when you play a song, so you can immediately see how they are learning at home and feel that they are getting the most out of it. The goals of the texts are clear and easy for instructors, parents and students to work with. The texts from Book 1 onwards are also good because the songs and chants are fun and the grammar, which is difficult to learn, is easy for the children to remember. |
| It is easy to teach because it is flexible and can be used again and again, such as the Color Kyogu, instruction manuals, and Card Roms. Even in Units with prepositions and interrogatives, which can be difficult to teach, the Color Kyogu and other resources make it possible to elicit children’s speech. |
| The lesson times are easy to adjust and the lessons flow well. I feel that this is a student-oriented text series that can improve both English and people skills. |
| APRICOT’s textbooks are designed for Japanese people who are learning English, so when I opened them, I found them friendly and easy to teach. I appreciate that students, parents, and teachers can understand and share what needs to be done. Sometimes, when we are doing communication activities, we wonder if this is enough or if we should go deeper, but after finishing a book, the students have definitely improved their level and we all feel a sense of accomplishment. I feel that if I can ensure that listening is done with the student CDs and get the children to speak in class, they have dramatically improved their love of English. I have found that Apricot’s materials have good audio when I use them. Since many of the English sentences are learned by listening, they can smoothly move on to reading and writing, and by transcribing all the English sentences in their notebooks, I feel that their English ability is definitely improving. We try to make sure that every student finishes Book 3 in the sixth grade, but even those with a somewhat limited English background are able to finish Book 3. We introducedHandwritingin Book 1 for the first time last year and I feel that the children are writing faster and making connections between letters and sounds because of this material I would like you to continue to bring out Handwriting, as Book 2 and READY may be used in grades 2-3. When we called to enquire, we were told that we could use the ‘4-line ni Uteru’ instead, but as we lose the printouts, it would be great to have a bound copy as it would still give a sense of achievement and make the stamps and stickers more meaningful if they were in booklet form. |
